<p>Hi everyone! I'm applying to NYU regular decision this year. I'm working on my essays right now and I was just wondering if you guys could, per se, 'chance' me for CAS. </p>
<p>I attend an extremely competitive high school with a difficult course load that is ranked highly everywhere, but had no test preparation at all for reason I'd rather not go into:</p>
<p>AP Exams:
U.S. Government - 3 (sophomore)
World History - 4 (junior)
Spanish Language - 5 (junior)
English Language & Composition - 5 (junior)
Biology - 5 (junior)</p>
<p>SAT Scores:
January - M 680, R 660, W 720 (total: 2060)
June - M 630, R 690, W 740 (total: 2060)
Superscore: 2110</p>
<p>ACT Scores:
Composite: 31
English: 31
Math: 29
Reading: 29
Science: 35
Writing: 10</p>
<p>GPA: 3.4 (Unweighted), 4.04 (Weighted). Let me explain this - I did very badly freshman year, and okay sophomore year, but my junior year GPA is about a 3.8. So I did slack off at first, but I improved significantly throughout high school, and am continuing to do so.</p>
<p>Senior Year Schedule:
AP Spanish Literature
AP Literature & Composition
AP AB Calculus
AP European History
Honors Anatomy & Physiology
Senior Seminar - required for the program I'm in at schol
Honors Marching/Symphonic Band</p>
<p>I am an active participant in my school's Humanities & Arts program, which requires participants to take extra credits in the humanities/arts depending on their focus (I am a humanities focus and so am taking six total years of Spanish, including 2 APs, and four years of history, including 2 APs, along with four years of music, all honors), and also requires senior participants to write a Senior Independent Project, which is an extended research paper of eighteen to twenty pages.</p>
<p>I know my scores and grades are not exactly fantastic, but I have other things working for me:</p>
<p>Extracurricular activities:
Private piano lessons 10 years
Marching band 3 years
Spanish Honor Society 2 years
Softball 3 years (JV captain 2 years)
Class Planning 3 years, Freshman Class President
Over 200 community service hours - 60 hours working at the Residency & International Admissions Office this summer (where people go to register their children in my county's school system), 46 hours working to teach children how to use computers before high school, and a bunch of other stuff here and there.
Other things that aren't important so I won't list them here</p>
<p>I am an African-American female from Tunisia (immigrated to the US as an infant, and visit Tunisia every year), and I am writing my essay on the Tunisian political revolution and how it affected me and my country. I speak fluent Arabic and French as well as English (I am basically quadrilingual, my Spanish is almost fluent).</p>
<p>I am planning on majoring in Biology or something related, and going on to vet school after undergraduate school. </p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>